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Asean Should Push Both Sides in Burma

By

Barry Wain

Updated July 12, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

HONG KONG--Less than two years ago, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations received a friendly warning against embracing a rogue Burma.

It came from Kusuma Snitwongse, chairman of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. In an assessment prepared for Asean-ISIS, a nongovernmental organization linking think tanks, she saw no problem in Asean expanding to accept communist Vietnam...